... question whether we are forced to accept a duality in the definition of 'I'. In conclusion I will answer the question of whether 'I am free to be whatever I want to be' with an almost definite 'no', and reflect upon the human drive towards change and to break boundaries. Defining 'freedom' is not an easy task. It is oxymoronic to place boundaries around a concept of 'being without boundaries', and so we can only float some generally accepted correlatives. In relation to freedom of identity the best of these are probably 'autonomy', 'self-determinism', 'having choice', 'unrestricted' and 'unconstrained'. In social psychology these terms are perhaps most associated with the experiential perspective, indicating that this perspective is most likely to advocate the 'I am free' statement. The experiential perspective combines humanistic notions of autonomy with the existential quest for self-definition. Autonomy requires that the person has alternatives to choose from, that they ...

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